The safer cigarette: what the tobacco industry could do (and why it hasen’t done it…)

Wednesday 03 March 1999 Press release EMBARGO 11:00 hoursWednesday 3rd March 1999 ASH Action on Smoking and Health The tobacco industry could have developed cigarettes that would have prevented thepremature deaths of thousands of smokers–but these new safer cigarettes have never beenmade available. A new report launched today by ASH and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund […]

Tobacco cases hit by technicality but fight must go on

Tuesday 09 February 1999 Press release: 9th February 1999 – Immediate A judge has ruled that some of the lung cancer victims suing the tobacco industry cannot continue as they did not bring their case within three years of diagnosis. This technicality is clearly a setback to the case, which is due to come to a full […]

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